Title: Using nested shortcodes across different post types
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Using nested shortcodes across different post types

 *  [stlouisweb@gmail.com](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stlouiswebgmailcom/)
 * (@stlouiswebgmailcom)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-nested-shortcodes-across-different-post-types/)
 * Hello, I am trying a new way to layout my content but I have hit a snag.
    The
   site I’m working on is sort of an homage to an old local newspaper, with several“
   articles”. Because of this I have added a post type “articles”, which will be
   referenced by an article shortcode with the specific article id. `[article id
   =#]` will go into another custom post type “columns”, which would be entered 
   into a PAGE type post like so: `[column id=#]`
 * So it seems to me that this would be shortcode nesting, even though they aren’t
   on the same “page” in the backend.
 * Here are my shortcode functions:
 *     ```
       function art_display_shortcode_fn ( $atts ) {	// allows an admin to enter articles into columns via shortcode like so: [article id=#]  where id is the post id number
   
       	extract(shortcode_atts(array('id' => ''), $atts));
   
       	$article_post_id = $id;
   
       	$post_object = get_post( $article_post_id );
   
       	echo '<div class="articlecontainer">';
   
       	 echo '<h2 class="list_title">'.$post_object->post_title,'</h2></a>';
   
        echo '<p class="list_excerpt">'.$post_object->post_content,'</p>';
   
        }
   
        	add_shortcode( 'article', 'art_display_shortcode_fn' );
   
       function column_display_shortcode_fn ( $atts, $content = null ) {	// allows an admin to enter columns into posts and pages via shortcode like so: [column id=#]  where id is the post id number
   
       	extract(shortcode_atts(array('id' => '', 'article_post_id' => ''), $atts));
   
       	$post_id = $id;
   
       	$post_object = get_post( $post_id );
   
       return '<div class="column">' . do_shortcode($content) . '</div>';
   
        }
   
        	add_shortcode( 'column', 'column_display_shortcode_fn' );
       ```
   
 * When I try it with this I get the `<div class="column">` to show up on the front-
   end, but it is not containing the articles as I believe it should.

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